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Triarchy Press Systems Thinking for Curious Managers by Russell L. Ackoff With Herbert Addison With Andrew Carey Foreword by Jamshid Gharajedaghi
This gem of a book introduces the extraordinary world of Systems Thinking and its Dean Russell Ackoff to curious and enquiring managers teachers business people - anyone anywhere who works in an organisation. Finished just before Professor Ackoffs death late in 2009 Systems Thinking for Curious Managers opens the door to a joined up way of thinking about things that has profoundly influenced thinkers and doers in the fields of business politics economics biology psychology. Although Systems Thinking was invented early in the 20th century even Peter Senges best-selling The Fifth Discipline Systems Thinking is the fifth discipline failed to popularise the term. But now in business and academia in the public sector and in the search for solutions to the environmental problems we face Systems Thinking is being talked about everywhere. In the same way its only since his death in 2009 that management thinker writer and guru Russell Ackoff has achieved the reputation he deserves. This timely book presents 40 more of Russ Ackoffs famously witty and incisive f-Laws or flaws of business - following on from his 2007 collection Management f-Laws.All those in this collection are new and previously unpublished. Andrew Careys extended introduction ties these f-Laws into the rest of Ackoffs work and gives the reader new to Systems Thinking a practical guide to the implications of Systems Thinking for organisations and managers. The Foreword by Jamshid Gharajedaghi is a moving tribute from Ackoffs friend and business partner of many years.show more